How Gregor Mendel’s pea plant experiments created modern genetics

Mendel’s monastery garden experiments went largely unnoticed during his life, but their implications would ripple through ...
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Plant and Environmental Science

Science is one of the three mission mandates of the 4-H program along with healthy living and citizenship. Indiana 4-H offers over 40 projects within the science mission area that are divided into ...

Growth chambers could enable reproducible plant-microbe data across continents

Harnessing the power of artificial intelligence to study plant microbiomes—communities of microbes living in and around ...
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Ethnobiotechnology in the Caribbean: sowing the seeds of sustainable agriculture and medicinal plant research

Sylvia Mitchell (left) is Head of the Medicinal Plant Biotechnology Research Group in the Biotechnology Centre at the University of the West Indies (UWI; Mona, Jamaica). She founded this research ...

Crowd sensing for the environment: Citizen science and plant apps map how urbanization alters city soils and climate

Plants reflect urban climate and soil conditions with remarkable precision. Using more than 80 million observations from ...